Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-26
, MIGHTY RUsu OF WATERS.

Navoe on Everv Sfde-RailrOad TraV- ell Seriously Impeded by Heavy Wash outs.
 GREENFIELD, Mass, July 25.-NeVer be- fore in it's history has Millers Falls experl- enced such damage by water as was occa- stoned by Sundays freshets. Between that town and Frying, distance of six miles, are twenty-five washouts and eleven land slides, by actual count. During Sunday s violent rain a torrent of water came rushing down the mountain road just east of the Fitchburg depot, guIying it badly. In a short time the depot flat was buried under three feet of water. Just east ot the passen- ger station is the freight depot. This the waters totally undermined, tearing a chasm sixty feet wide and twelve feet deep through the gravelly soil. Passing underneath the side tracks it dropped freight and coal cars through the chasm end up. The torrent rushed down the steep incline to the river two feet, tearing gorge twenty feet deep and fifty feetwide, undermining the coal sheds and shade trees in It's passage. South of the Lake House is another gully ten feet deep and fifteen feet wide. On Sunday the Lake House was com pletely surrounded by an angry flood. A portion of the south end of the building was undermined Sections of the Fitchburg rail road yard tracks are undermined in places quite badly. Bridge street is gullied so as to be impossible, Pine Meadow to the highway bridge at Northfeld farms is washed away, and the highway bridges between Miller's Falls and Frying are all gone, so that travel by team is impossible, on which account transfer of passengers cannot be made. The Frying highway passing through the woods near the river on the flats is six feet under water and the culvert over the ravine at the mouth of Miller's river is washed out twenty-five feet deep. All travel between Muler's Falls and Northfeld is cut of. A prominent railway man said this afternoon that if the road puts on it's entire force it will take fully two weeks before the road is anywhere near re- paired The sweeping away of the iron rail road bridge below here this morning further complicates matters. A report just reached here that Stones dam at Frying and the Frying mill dams have been washed away, but it is not yet confirmed. A large number of Boston passengers are delayed at M1llers Falls unable to get through and are liable to
  so that passage by team can be made around the scene of the disaster.
 Of the twenty-five washouts mentioned above either ono is large enough to engulf train and it is wonder that no fatalities have resulted The railroad people are do- ing everything possible for the comfort Of the passengers. Meanwhile there is general blockade of traffic both sides of Frying About mile and a half east of Miller's Falls station is a washout under the tracks thirty feet long and six feet deep. A mile beyond this at the bank wall, the track is gullied a distance of one hundred feet and forty feet deep. Between that point and the spot where the bridge went down this morning are twenty-five other wash outs ranging from ten to thirty feet in width by four to twenty feet in depth. At Wendell several highway bridges are down and all roads badly washed. Harris mill dam, Goddard's dam, Aliens and Eben Col l Hers sawmill dams in the vicinity of Ewing are all washed away. Most of the damage on the railroad and highway was caused by ' the swelling of small mountain streams which rushed from the hillsides mad, raging | torrents. A bridge near Alden's pond is ' washed away and two hundred feet of the \ highway badly gullied. This afternoon the \ work of trestling the widest breach in the Fitchburg road was commenced. No \ trains have passed east of Greenfield \ to-day. There is talk of conveying east 1OoS | via Keene. A waterspout struck the highway | between Greenfield and Lake Pleasant Sun day, leaving a hole thirty feet long, four feet deep and ten feet wide. The principal cul
 verts on the highway between Montague anc | Montague City have been washed out, serl- \ ously delaying travel, and all the hill towns have suffered severely. Altogether these art the worst washouts that Franklin county ha. experienced in many years and singularly \ enough they are all within radius of si1 miles. No mails or papers have got througl from the east since Sunday morning, thougl
 the western mail from Greenfield has beer sent on time. The Frying selectmen say they
 hope to get the highway repaired sufficiently | to transfer the mails tomorrow.
 | DOVER, N. H., July 25.-Reports from 1 owners of various brickyards in this count.
 show large losses by the rain storm. II Gonic alone the loss is $2, 800. In Dover th I total losses foot up $2, 200.
 BANGOR, July 25-A heavy rainfall sine ! Saturday up to tonight has resulted in seri \ ous washouts on the Maine Central road be tween Vassalboro and Burnham. Fiv ! washouts are reported and a train due at 60 I D. m will not be here before morning. Tn ! Pullman train for Boston is cancelled Tn I Bar Harbor limited due from Boston at SAC I arrived about and the express dne ct 4.41 i10 little later. The St. John t1ain arrived ol ! time.
 The ticket office he1e has temporaril
 stopped selling tickets to points east of thi station, but expect to resume to-morro'
 when the railroad company will transfe l passengers by team around the washouts
 The highway to Frying tonight was tempo
 rarily fixed so that the first transfer ws
 made. Heavy stock trains have blocked th
 sidings here to-day awaiting transportation
 Tonight long trans of cattle, sheep an
 1 swine were transferred east via the Connect
 cut River road and keene.